Horribates

Horribates is a genus of eremobatid camel spiders, first described by Martin Hammond Muma in 1962.

Horribates
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Solifugae
Family:	Eremobatidae
Subfamily:	Eremobatinae
Genus:	Horribates Muma, 1962
Type species
Horribates spinigerus Muma, 1962
Species
3, see text

Species

As of February 2023, the World Solifugae Catalog accepts the following three species:

• Horribates bantai Muma, 1989 — US (California)
• Horribates minimus Muma, 1989 — US (California)
• Horribates spinigerus Muma, 1962 — US (California, Nevada)

Further reading

• Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
• Comstock, John Henry (1912). The spider book: A manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whip-scorpions, harvestmen, and other members of the class arachnida, found in America North of Mexico, with analytical keys for their clas... ISBN 978-1295195817.
• Goudsley-Thompson, J.L. (1977). "Adaptational Biology of Solifugae (Solpugida)" (PDF). Bull. Br. Arachnol. Soc. 4 (2): 61–71.
• Harvey, Mark S. (2003). Catalogue of the Smaller Arachnid Orders of the World: Amblypygi, Uropygi, Schizomida, Palpigradi, Ricinulei and Solifugae. CSIRO Publishing. ISBN 0-643-06805-8.
• Harvey, Mark S. (2002). "The neglected cousins: what do we know about the smaller arachnid orders?". The Journal of Arachnology. 30 (2): 357–372. doi:10.1636/0161-8202(2002)030[0357:TNCWDW]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0161-8202. S2CID 59047074.
• Jackman, John A. (2002). A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas. Gulf Publishing. ISBN 978-0877192640.
• Punzo, Fred (2012). The Biology of Camel-Spiders: Arachnida, Solifugae. Springer Science & Business Media. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-5727-2. ISBN 978-1-4613-7623-1. S2CID 36553371.